The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... there is some me- morial of Dryden's funeral , but my intelligence was not true ; the ftory therefore wants the credit which fuch a teftimony would have given it . There is in Farquhar's Letters an indiftinct mention 4 it .
... there is some me- morial of Dryden's funeral , but my intelligence was not true ; the ftory therefore wants the credit which fuch a teftimony would have given it . There is in Farquhar's Letters an indiftinct mention 4 it .
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... Some of his letters to Mr. Bennet , afterwards earl of Arling- ton , from April to December in 1650 , are preferved in " Mifcellanea Aulica , " a collection of papers published by Brown . These letters being written like thofe of other ...
... Some of his letters to Mr. Bennet , afterwards earl of Arling- ton , from April to December in 1650 , are preferved in " Mifcellanea Aulica , " a collection of papers published by Brown . These letters being written like thofe of other ...
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... Some years afterwards , " bufinefs , " fays Sprat , " paffed of courfe into other " hands ; " and Cowley being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 fent back into England , that " under pretence of " privacy C into COWL E Y. 17.
... Some years afterwards , " bufinefs , " fays Sprat , " paffed of courfe into other " hands ; " and Cowley being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 fent back into England , that " under pretence of " privacy C into COWL E Y. 17.
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... some account . The metaphyfical pocts were men of learning , and to fhew their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , un- luckily refolving to fhew it in rhyme , inftead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often ...
... some account . The metaphyfical pocts were men of learning , and to fhew their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , un- luckily refolving to fhew it in rhyme , inftead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often ...
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Samuel Johnson. This twilight of two years , not past nor next , Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who meteor - like , of ftuff and form per- plext , Whofe what and where , in difputation is , If I fhould call me any thing , fhould ...
Samuel Johnson. This twilight of two years , not past nor next , Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who meteor - like , of ftuff and form per- plext , Whofe what and where , in difputation is , If I fhould call me any thing , fhould ...
Често срещани думи и фрази
ABRAHAM COWLEY againſt Anacreon anſwer appear becauſe Clarendon compofitions conceits confeffed confidered converfation copacy Cowley Cowley's Cromwel Davideis defcription deferve defign defire delight diſcovered Donne doth Dryden eafily elegance Engliſh expreffion fafe faid fame fatire fays fcarce fecond feems feldom fent fentiments fhall fhew fhould filk fince fion firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon ftill ftudies fubject fuch fuffered fufficiently fupply fuppofed furely himſelf Hiſtory houfe king king's known lady laft laſt learning leaſt lefs lines loft lord lord Conway mafter meaſure mifs Milton mind moft moſt muſt nature never numbers obferved occafion paffage paffed paffion parliament perufal Petrarch Pindar pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poetical poetry poets praife praiſe prefent preferved profe publiſhed purpoſe racter reafon reft reprefented ſeem Sprat Taffo thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tion ufed uſed verfe verſes Waller whofe worfe write
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Страница 4 - monly called Genius. The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, Accidentally determined to fome particular direction; The great painter of | the prefent age had the firft fondnefs ; -for his art excited by the perufal of / Richardfon's treatife. • By his mother's felicitation he was Admitted into
Страница 3 - from Sprat's account, that he always acknowledged her care, and juftly paid the dues of filial gratitude. * In the window of his mother's apartment lay Spenfer's Fairy Queen ; in which he very early took delight to read, till, by feeling the charms of verfe, he became, as he relates,
Страница 76 - It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who muft Like th' other foot, obliquely run. Thy firmnefs makes my
Страница 96 - between God and the human foul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the merey of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher ftate than poetry can confer. The eflence of poetry is invention; fuch invention as, by producing
Страница 39 - blows; Your youth and beauty are this balm in you. But, you of learning and religion, And virtue and fuch ingredients, have made A mithridate, whofe operation Keeps off, or cures what can be done or faid. Though the following lines of Donne, on the laft night of the year, havefomething in them too
Страница 78 - tis not to adorn and gild each part, That fhews more coft than art.. Jewels at nofe and lips but ill appear; Rather than all things wit, let none be there. Several lights will not be feen, If there be nothing
Страница 111 - narrative, .and to repofe on its veracity with fuch humble confidence, as fupprefles curiofity. We go with the hiftorian as he goes, and flop with him when he flops. All amplification is frivolous and vain; all addition to that which is already fufficient for the purpofes of religion,
Страница 24 - that were placed near. him, and then went with them out of the church, leaving the reft in folicitude and amazement. They immediately fent guards to proper places, and that night apprehended Tomkyns and Waller; having yet traced nothing but that letters had been intercepted, from which it appeared that the parliament and the
Страница 31 - not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinction. Thofe writers who